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The book publisher Penguin is printing more copies of George Orwell's dystopian classic "1984" in response to a sudden surge of demand.
On Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning the book was #1 on Amazon's computer-generated list of best-selling books.
[...] "We put through a 75,000 copy reprint this week. That is a substantial reprint and larger than our typical reprint for '1984,'" a Penguin spokesman told CNNMoney Tuesday evening.
[...] According to Nielsen BookScan, which measures most but not all book sales in the United States, "1984" sold 47,000 copies in print since Election Day in November. That is up from 36,000 copies over the same period the prior year.
When the submitter visited amazon.com, the book was ranked #3.
Additional coverage:
- Los Angeles Times
- The New York Times (may be pay-walled)
- 9News
- The Washington Post (owned by the founder of amazon.com)
- The Guardian
- The Man Who Invented the Science Fiction Paperback
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 26 2017, @06:37PM
Obama blew smoke up our ass for 8 years about a recovery that never happened...On one hand we have statements that are supported by data. The Economy Is Better — Why Don’t Voters Believe It? [fivethirtyeight.com]
On the other hand, we have the Whitehouse Press Secretary lying about things for which there is photographic proof of falsehood. White House Press Secretary Defends False Statements About Inauguration Crowds [motherjones.com]
Enough with the false equivalency already!
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday January 26 2017, @10:18PM
Ah yes. Data. Because there's no way to lie with data, is there? Let's not count labor force participation rates, let's only count people who have recently filed for unemployment. Let's not talk about real incomes, which have been on an uninterrupted slide for 40 years, let's talk about how great the Dow Jones is doing. Nah, you're right. You got me. Data never lies, and what the country's feeling is all in their heads, right? All you gotta do is convince them how delusional they are, and how it is really, truly wonderful to have the .0001% siphon off all the productivity gains of the last several decades, to, what, squirrel it away in secret accounts in the Caymans and wash it through lots of shell companies so they don't pay any taxes on it?
It is not false equivalency at all to point out that Obama did nothing to help out the middle class, and he did nothing to rein in the police state. If you still buy the story that Democrats and Republicans are different, you really need to step outside your bubble. The country is not tearing itself to pieces because everything's going GREAT!
Washington DC delenda est.